Ok, let’s do some viral marketing for GPRS in Kenya…
The other day, I already blogged on GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) in Kenya and complained about Safaricom’s strange GPRS settings which were previously sent to my mobile phone. Of course I am way too complicated from time to time, hence the service never worked – [...]

…like the Adazi (Mandazi) or that cup of chai.
Please note the nice arrangement of menu cards, calendar & kitsch wisdom.
And what about the most ugliest pair of shoes I’ve ever bought in my life?

they…

were relatively cheap (199/= Ksh)
are Made in Kenya (supporting the local economy, etc.)
are comfy “mens hi-quality sandles” which can be worn with [...]

…like these mikebe I came across while shopping for my furnitures:

The beauty of living upcountry is that you see things which have almost vanished from Nairobi. And everyone here keeps on telling me how much they prefer Embu (read: “the rural life”) to the chaos in Nairobi. True! Remember what it takes to get from [...]

…well, do we?
What’s the sense in writing papers on water conservation if I just can’t convince those Mamas doing the laundry (at the place I am currently staying at) in preserving the resource “water” by closing the tap after enough water has flown into the wash basin?
What’s the sense in honouring national heroes on special [...]

Saturday afternoon after some work on an urgent paper (which hindered me from going to Nyeri) I organized some cheap furnitures (cheap as in cheap quality and low – local – prices) for the kitchen + my room and also persuaded the stingy part in me to invest some mbeca for a decent 6 kgs [...]

Just around 8 p.m. on this Furahiday evening the whole of Embu experienced a power failure – and I was blessed with a wonderful new experience: a silent town.
The music @ the Night Club next door stopped playing, everything dark and I just reached out for my candoooools which I had bought the other day [...]

http://www.timesnews.co.ke/20oct06/magazine/magazine6.html
&
http://kikuyumoja.com/?p=891
(Thx, Barbara!)
@KenyaTimes: Next time you are re-publishing my words, pls let me know. I know I can’t be mad with you kwani no one I know actually reads the Kenya Times….ama?

My colleague called me from Kakamega and told me to go online and download a new binary file for the software we are currently using (the programmer compiled a new binary and had it sent to us – 1,3 MB, which is a lot for the average modem connection).
So I went out at 8 p.m., [...]